Jenny McCarthy Says She ‘Literally Almost Died’ from Going Vegan

The ‘Masked Singer’ judge says she has too many food restrictions to be vegan, shared that she’s feeling better on a carnivore diet

Jenny McCarthy said she “literally almost died” from a vegan diet, due to her food allergies keeping her from consuming enough nutrients.

“I became so ill from being a vegan,” the Masked Singer judge, 52, told host Maria Menounos on the March 26 episode of her podcast, Heal Squad. “I tried vegan and I almost died. I literally almost died.”

The problem, she shared, is that she had a lot of food allergies, which went undiagnosed for years.

“I didn’t know I had a gluten and dairy problem. I thought everyone got sick when they ate,” said McCarthy, who realized she has Celiac disease, a disorder that impacts the way someone reacts to gluten, the protein in wheat, rye and barley.

“I can’t have carbs and everything is a carb,” the former Playboy star explained. “I’m also, like, allergic to soy and everything — I was literally dying,” she continued. “I was exhausted and fatigued. I was a mess.”

She’s now on a carnivore diet, which she says at first, “felt very low vibrational, heavy. I was more eating salmon and doing light things like that, but I might as well give it a try.”

McCarthy called it “my last resort diet,” but said it’s been working for her. “It has been f—ing incredible — for me. Again, I stress things as for me,” sharing that she’s seen a “huge energy” boost changing her diet.

While she shared that she won’t stay on the meat-heavy diet long-term, McCarthy said it’s helped her in the bathroom, sharing, “I literally go every day without a laxative. I was living on seven to ten aloe pills a day, just to go every four days.”

“Now I go every single day… all I eat is meat,” McCarthy, whose husband Donnie Wahlberg co-owns the Wahlburgers restaurant chain, said.